Suicide kits disguised as home-brew equipment

A EUTHANASIA campaigner nicknamed Dr Death is selling suicide kits disguised as equipment for home-brewing beer.

Dr Philip Nitschke, who calls for the legalisation of assisted suicide, sells the £257 kit on his brewing company’s website.

It can be used for brewing beer but Dr Nitschke has written a guidebook, also available online, that explains how it can be used to commit suicide.

Dr Nitschke is the founder of Exit International, an assisted suicide charity. It does not sell the brewing kits.

Tom Curran, partner of deceased right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming, is a director of Exit International. Its website directs people in Ireland to Mr Curran’s mobile phone number. Mr Curran is the subject of a Garda investigation into the death of Ms Fleming. She died in December 2013 after a lengthy court battle for the right to end her own life failed.